The Montgomery Advertiser won 11 awards in the annual Alabama Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, including the top overall award for advertising.

More than 2,000 entries were submitted from 62 newspapers across the state, covering work produced during 2017. They were judged by the Virginia Press Association, and winners were honored Saturday in Orange Beach.

Judges chose the Advertiser as the winner of the "sweepstakes" award for the best advertising work among the state's largest newspapers. That includes layout and appearance, organization and promotion, creativity, use of photos, copy writing, online ads, and classified or reader ads. The newspaper's ad department won six awards overall, including five first-place awards.

The paper also won first place for lifestyle/family pages and best production or printing, as well as four second- or third-place awards.

The annual contest is organized by the APA, which is a state trade association of daily and weekly newspapers.

A separate annual industry contest organized by the Alabama Associated Press Media Editors honored the Montgomery Advertiser with 29 awards for work produced during 2017, including top honors in its division across several reporting categories as well as the top overall photography award.

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